Re: don't gzip man files

[Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>]

In message <199604180720.AAA26216@shellx.best.com>, Daniel Quinlan writes:
>>Carl V Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu> writes:
>>>Daniel Quinlan wrote:
>>> Disk space costs about 20 or 30 cents per MB.
>> Purchased in lots of 1000...
>Your information is dated.
>Paying more than $0.50 per MB would be a rip-off.

You _totally_ missed the boat on Carl's comment.

To restate his comment in less ironic (but not nearly so clever)
terms:

While the price per MB of HD space may be real low, you have to buy a
1GB drive (that is, "lots of 1000" of MBs) to get those sort of
prices.

Personally, I think this fact renders the arguments about, "compressed
man pages only saves a couple of dollars of disk space" rather
questionable, since someone having to add disk space would actually
have to spend a lot more than a couple of dollars.

Mike.
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